Leonard Cohen - Hallelujah Accordion Lesson 

That's awesome to hear! Let me know if you have any questions about getting started.

Thanks Donald :)

Yes!! Totally doable in a year. Let me know if you have any questions!

Thank you!

So good to hear! Well done!!

You're welcome 😊 let me know if you have any questions

Happens to me every day 😂

Congrats! Love that size.

Thanks for watching, Nigel.

Totally doable Levi!!

+Guy Smalley Thanks Guy!

You're very welcome!

I'm fifteen and play accordion since 8 years

Thanks for listening!

Hey! I'm on Vancouver Island as well. Greetings from the Cowichan Valley :)

Thanks Klaus

Very welcome 😊

Take This Waltz! Beautiful song. I haven't played it much, but yes! Thanks for the reminder 🙂

Thank you 🙏👍

Thank you 👍

+Stefan Vasutiu Ha! Ran right across the shot :-) Good eye!

Thank you 😊

Practice your left hand. Make sure you know how to play every key in the song, and then how to connect between them (e.g. from C to Am, and back, without any mistakes). Play the song through left hand only, and then slowly start introducing the right hand, line by line.

Great to hear, Rebecca. I'm currently living on Vancouver Island, in Canada.

Hi Sammy, good point. Hand coordination and holding notes over chord changes are one of those skills that's so critical to playing. I cover it in more detail on accordionLove.com lessons. I also wrote about it here: accordionlove.com/the-how-to-guide-to-coordinating-your-hands-on-the-accordion/

Yeah! Notes and video lesson on accoridonlove.com

Hey, thanks! I have a few videos on my channel on how to buy a used accordion. Check em out!!

Ooh, I don't have a tool to do that with

Notes and lesson are up at www.accordionlove.com

Hi Gabi. If you're just looking for sheet music there are a few sheet music sites on the Internet that sell them. If you Google "Leonard Cohen Piano Sheet Music" you'll find some. SheetMusicPlus I believe is a good one. Piano sheet music is fairly straightforward to translate to accordion. I also have Suzanne and Hallelujah on accordionlove.com for accordion, with a video lesson explaining how to play the song, if you're interested.

Thanks a lot. I'll try it🤗

Yes! On my list of songs to cover.

Hey Russ, sure, that works, but I guess it depends on the song. I think it's important to be able to play a C major to A minor oom-pa, without too much trouble. Meaning, it's a fairly standard type of jump. The F major to A minor is a little bigger, so I can see why using the F counterbass would be useful in that case.

Thanks! That's a big question, re: controlling the sound of each hand. I would say it has to do with hand independence. The first thing to do is try it out on a simple melody. For example, just play a C major chord with your left hand, and then try and press one or two keys with your right. It shouldn't be a song, but try and make that melodic. Try and vary its intensity. Then try introducing more elements to it. Another chord on the left hand (C major to G major) and a more complex melody. I made a blog post and videos about it here: accordionlove.com/the-how-to-guide-to-coordinating-your-hands-on-the-accordion/

@@moshezuchter Thanks very much, it's already getting better. It's magic how the intensity and the timing of intensity effect the volume of right and left different ways, very interesting! I keep exploring :)

@@kazohin yeah! Happy you're figuring it out 👍👐

Thanks Heike. I'll add the song to my list!

You can find the sheet music - bass notes and melody - on accordionlove.com

I play the song in C major. We have F C G D A and E. So you need those six keys, majors and minors. All 40 and 48 bass accordions will have this range covered.

Unfortunately I don't yet know how to play the melodeon, so I cannot give any tips. One suggestion is to transpose the song from C (which it's in now) to D or G?

I understood "Hava Nagila" and oui, I can do a tutorial on it. :-)

This Weltmeister has 72 bass buttons. The songs range is from F to E, so it could work on a 48 bass

I'm not sure what MusiMax sheet is. Standard sheet music?

Bless that squirrel :)

Sheet music is up at accordionlove.com

@@moshezuchter sorry, I can't see the sheet in the link you mentioned here. I also need it because it's really difficult to understand when you start the accords in coincidence with notes. I think for example that you start the C major when you play the first G, but I'm not even sure of that.

Hi Carolina, here is the link: accordionlove.com/lessons/hallelujah-leonard-cohen/

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